There I failed.

I was foredoomed to failure! She had the trick of playing what tune she cared to on a man's heartstrings.

After it was all over, and your father and she had left the place, I spent years trying to persuade your mother to get a divorce and marry me.

But she was the daughter of a Bishop, a High Churchwoman, and a holy woman.

She died with your father's name upon her lips." I shuddered! The words were spoken so deliberately, and yet with such vibrant force.
"After that," Ray continued, "came Egypt, then India, and afterwards Khartoum.